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APPENDIX C<br />
EXPLANATION OF THE SEP SCORES<br />
Meaning Research quality Relevance to Society Viability<br />
1 World leading/<br />
excellent<br />
The research unit has been<br />
shown to be one of the few<br />
most influential research<br />
groups in the world in its<br />
particular field.<br />
The research unit makes<br />
an outstanding<br />
contribution to society.<br />
The research unit is<br />
excellently equipped for the<br />
future.<br />
2 Very good The research unit conducts<br />
very good, internationally<br />
recognised research.<br />
The research unit makes<br />
a very good contribution<br />
to society.<br />
The research unit is very<br />
well equipped for the future.<br />
3 Good The research unit conducts<br />
good research.<br />
4 Unsatisfactory The research unit does not<br />
achieve satisfactory results<br />
in its field.<br />
The research unit makes<br />
a good contribution to<br />
society.<br />
The research unit does<br />
not make a satisfactory<br />
contribution to society.<br />
The research unit makes<br />
responsible strategic<br />
decisions and is therefore<br />
well equipped for the future.<br />
The research unit is not<br />
adequately equipped for the<br />
future.<br />
Quality is seen as the contribution that research makes to the body of scientific<br />
knowledge. The scale of the unit’s research results (scientific publications,<br />
instruments and infrastructure developed by the unit, and other contributions to<br />
science) are also assessed.<br />
Relevance to society is seen as the quality, scale and relevance of contributions<br />
targeting specific economic, social or cultural target groups, of advisory reports for<br />
policy, of contributions to public debates, and so on. The point is to assess<br />
contributions in areas that the research unit has itself designated as target areas.<br />
Viability is seen as the strategy that the research unit intends to pursue in the<br />
years ahead and the extent to which it is capable of meeting its targets in research<br />
and society during this period. It also considers the governance and leadership<br />
skills of the research unit’s management.<br />
The categories in this SEP and the descriptions differ from the scores in prior SEPs<br />
and are therefore not comparable.<br />
42 Assessment Committee Report on Research in Industrial Design <strong>Engineering</strong> 2007-2012
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